SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 30 July 1917, Page 5

SUBMARINE CAMPAIGN.

FIGHTING THE SUBMARINE. 3,000 BRITISH VESSELS ARMED. LONDON, July 27. The Rt. Hon. T. J. McNamara stated in the House of Commons that there now over three thousand British merchant vessels armed, and many were being provided with armament every week. DUTCH TUG SUNK. AMSTERDAM, July 28. A German submarine sank the Dutch tug Costzee and a lighter. The crew were landed. COPENHAGEN, July 28. The Norwegian steamer Thorsdal and the sailen Vaarbud were submarined and sunk, it is believed in the Arctic. It is believed that twenty of the Thorsdal's erew and all the Vaarbud's crew were saved.

ALLIES CHECKMATING GERMANY.

NEW YORK, July 28.

The Times' Washington correspondent has the highest authority for stating that the best information available to the United States Government indicates that Germany is operating not more than 200 submarines and turning out three or four submarines weekly. The Allies are -destroying on an average one weekly. Every effort is being centred on the co-ordination of the United States, English and French Navies, to increase destruction as a set-off to the submarines. Naval officers seriously regard reports that Germany is producing 5000-ton submarines. PARIS, July 28.

Generals. Petain, Foch, Robertson, Cadorna and Pershing privately discussed the Allies' general military interests and the Allies' Admirals discussed submarine warfare.

WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN".

Received 11.40,

AMSTERDAM, July 29. Admiral Njeorand, commander of the Austrian fleet, in an interview in the Neu Frei Fresse, said if Austria had had a great fleet the war with Italy would have been finished long ago. He does not believe submarines will decide the war, though they might render England uncomfortable. They are merely a means towards victory, SUBMARINE BASE AT BRUGES.. Received 9.25. NEW YORK, July 29.

The New York Journal's Washington correspondent has obtained authoritive confidential information that the reasons the Allies are not attacking the submarine base is because it is not situated as supposed at Zeebrugge, bat thirty miles up at Bruges Canal, where the submarines are in dugouts, safe from bombs.

JAPANESE DESTROY A SUBMARINE. Received 9.25. LONDON, July 29. The Japanese naval attache announces that Japanese warships in the Mediterranean escorting British transports on the 22nd, July, attacked and smashed the periscope of an enemy submarine, which was undoubtedly destroyed. GERMAN STEAMER CAPTURED. Received 11.40. LONDON, July 29. . Admiralty report*:— Our submarines in the North Sea .on Friday captured the German steamer Batavier 11. The crew abandoned the ship. A prize crew went aboard, but owing to gunfire damage it was impossible to bring her in, arid she was scuttled.